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UCF undergraduate Grant Hernandez is featured in an interview that may air on CNN talking about the security of the Nest thermostat, which can be seen in the following link

At the IEEE 57th Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS) held at College Station, Texas in August 2014, Prof. Wasfy Mikhael received an award that recognizes his outstanding service and contributions to the success of MWSCAS.

On August 7th 2014, NSF awarded a new Industry/University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST).

Congratulations to Dr. Kalpathy Sundaram for receiving the “IEEE 2013 Outstanding Student Branch Counselor Award” for outstanding commitment to the educational, personal, professional, and technical development of students in IEEE.

Dr. Juin J. Liou received $600,000 from Analog Devices Inc. for his innovative research on the subject of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection.

Congratulations to Mr. Kevin Joslyn, a senior BSEE student, who received a 2013-2014 IEEE Power and Energy Systems Scholarship.

Marwan A. Simaan, Florida 21st Century Chair and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has been elected to the 2014 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

Dr. Xun Gong received $655,937 from DARPA for his innovative research of developing reconfigurable slot-ring antennas.

Each year, the Science Olympiad National Tournament is hosted by a major university, and this year UCF is taking the lead! And we need volunteers!

Team UCF Knights, comprised of ECE Undergraduate students Dean Sullivan, Brandon Frazer, Jeff Biggers, Ryan Dixon, Henry Chan, and Victor Medina, received second place at the 2013 Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Embedded Systems Challenge held from Nov. 14-16th in Brooklyn, New York at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly).